Research Shows E-Cig Regulation Pushes Teenagers To Smoking

New research has shown that restricting teenagers from vaping pushes young adults back to smoking.

According to a new study from Dhaval Dave, an economics professor from Bentley University, Bo Feng, a doctoral student at Georgia State University, and Michael Pesko, a health economist and assistant professor of health-care policy and research at Weill Cornell Medical College, youth smoking in the US has jumped from 0.7 to 1.4 percentage points.

Researchers have argued that by making in harder for people younger than 18 to buy e-cigarettes, teenagers are turning to traditional cigarettes.

“When you make it harder to buy e-cigarettes, the unintended consequence of this action is continuing regular cigarette consumption,” Michael Pesko said.